Jean CO #5

July 6th

Dr. Angel Rios

Speaking Class

Group 1/2 beginner and low intermediate listening 

1:00-1:50


The main lesson of Dr. Rios's class was the teaching of phonics. Mainly, he focused in on the soft and hard pronunciations of a few letters and how they pair with vowels. Dr. Rios used several visual aids like writing out large charts on the board allowing his students to follow much letter and pronunciation he was covering. 

Dr. Rios also did a great job of involving the students with the lesson as he was constantly turning to them for answers to his questions in order to advance the lesson. He then turned the lesson towards the projector where he gave the students a word bank and then asked them to place the words into the hard or soft pronunciation category. An excellent activity as it provides linguistic support for students yet still enables them to grasp the overall concept.

Dr. Rios then moved the lesson to a reading activity where students would take turns reading aloud and were asked to focus on words that included the letter C + vowel and make sure they used either the hard or soft pronunciation. I noticed that while the students were reading Dr. Rios would not go out of his way to correct every mistake they were making, but instead focused on just correcting C word pronunciation or words that the students did not know.

Overall Dr. Rios did a great job of introducing his topic, providing liguistic support for the students, and providing relevant feedback.

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